Perceived Wage Fairness - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

schedules, but still remain employed by the company. In addition to weighing the financial costs and benefits, students discussed the fairness of each option. Some thought furloughs were the fairer option because they instilled a sense of... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

1990s to build an entrepreneurial ecosystem that could harness its business-minded immigrant population. Strategic investment had given rise to creative events and spaces, like the international Art Basel fair in Miami, new performing... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

09 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

price you can. As you walk out of the shop, you can’t shake the feeling that you just got fleeced—forced to pay just slightly more than a local would pay. The fact is, you are probably right. No matter how vigilant you are, it’s hard to get a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

developed an innovation fair in which every unit could show off its most promising new concepts. I was privileged to judge the first one with the then CEO, where we gave an award to the legal department for its ethics program, featuring a... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

September 2020
Case

Uber at a Crossroads (2017)

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Karen Elterman

This case describes the history of Uber, its business model—including the ways it differed from that of the traditional taxi industry—and its competition with Lyft. The case is set in 2017, a year in which Uber was plagued by even more scandals than usual, though its... View Details

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25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

insight was that the fair solution could be determined by creating uncertainty about the position the person choosing the outcome would find him- or herself in. In short, the person cutting the cake has to decide the size of the slices... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Less Info - Slides Representation matters, and how we portray people matters greatly to how they are perceived in the classroom and on the various stages of our lives. Looking back on decades of writing about women from the very first HBS... View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

adjusted to completely new work and personal situations." Case 4: Commitment to employees’ mental well-being and fairness Chemical and materials companies are an essential part of their customers’ supply chains. Guaranteeing business... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

Portrait Project

Megha Mathur

educate their families. These women did, however, believe they deserved fair treatment at work through reasonable wages and access to health care. Seeing the beautiful homes that the women were building... View Details

29 Jul 2021
News

Support System

for-profit B2C company that offers fair wages and provides education and retirement funds to its 7,500 registered pickers in the region. She later launched Mother’s Shea. As they have landed in retailers... View Details

02 Dec 2017
News

The Lines That Divide America

exchange for hard work is now both limited and unevenly granted,” he writers. “Worse yet, white working-class citizens perceive others—mainly minorities and immigrants—to be unfairly cutting ahead of them in line. And members of the white... View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

depressed " (Yaron Kaufman); "when motives switch from serving to grabbing" (Gerald Nanninga); "the amount that allows the stakeholders to know 'we're all in this together, and apart from our natural not manmade limitations, we all have just and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

activities on the job that are not perceived as work while "working" in ways that are non-productive. In short, we're not thinking creatively enough about work. Those are themes that recur in the comments to this month's column.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

antitrust issues increasingly factored into the strained relationship between the government and the steel industry. In testimony to the Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly in 1957, American steelmakers argued they could not increase View Details

08 May 2006
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Cutting in Line

the queue? And how would social norms and a sense of fairness play out along the line? The results were quite surprising. As might be expected, the higher the amount of payment offered, the more likely individuals were to allow a stranger... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Design: At, Into, & Beyond - Race, Gender & Equity

personality that differs across cultures and shifts over time; the traits, behaviors, and perceived limitations ascribed to intersex and (fe)male beings. Hypersurveillance Data and footage compiled, at times by coercion or under duress,... View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Philadelphia printers conduct first successful strike for increased wages 1787 United States Constitution adopted 1790 William Pollard is issued the first patent for a machine that roves and spins cotton 1794 Eli Whitney patents gin that... View Details

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

outlines concrete steps that managers at all levels can take to spark positive conflict and make sure that all views get a fair hearing, and he outlines as well a fair and open process for making more... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Is This the Decade of the Investor?

to assess the fairness of the division of returns. And before making assumptions about the future, "we still need to get a firm handle on just how much productivity increased before we take actions based upon assumptions of increased... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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